Wednesday in photos

Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils attend a public rally by the country's main ethnic Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils in the Northern province will vote Sept. 21 in the country's first Northern provincial council election since government troops crushed separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, who were fighting to create a separate state for minority Tamils. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)Photo by Eranga Jayawardena